[wplug] the best spreadsheet for Linux

[bgtrio at yahoo.com]

Two ideas:

1. OpenOffice.org is a pretty darned good office suite and it can handle 
Excel files.

2. You could get the Crossover Wine plugin and just install MS Office.

Bryguy



On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Paul Cantalupo wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to find the best Excel substitute on Linux. I have many
> spreadsheets containing thousands of rows that I routinely use on
> Windows. I am hoping to convert to Linux but I am finding it hard to
> manipulate these files on Linux. I need a program that
> 1) can import Excel files (or at least recognize tab delimited format)
> 2) can be easily navigated (i.e. Excel has several shortcuts for moving
> around effortlessly in a spreadsheet)
> 3) doesn't assume too much about your data (i.e. Kspread forces you to
> deal with numbers as a number whereas I want it to just be plain text).
> 
> Does anybody have any suggestions?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Paul Cantalupo
> 
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